Intel is pushing their upcoming i845 DDR chipsets over i845 SDR. The Register cites a DigiTimes article which suggests motherboard makers have been told directly by Intel to sell i845 DDR + 478-pin Pentium 4s first, and i845 SDR-based motherboards second. Products based on Intel's i845D may be released as early as next week. If RAMBUS has shown us one thing, it's that the Pentium 4 likes a higher FSB bandwidth. With SDRAM's 133MHz compared to DDR's 266MHz, the solution seems obvious, and Intel's recent public change of heart is likely attributable to politics, which come across as slightly fuzzy to all but informed insiders. Still, a licensing agreement between Intel and RAMBUS is now in place which allows Intel to come out and say that DDR is actually a good solution. When released, i845 prices are expected to be comparable to i850-based (RAMBUS) motherboards available today. Price Watch shows i850s starting around US$100 without memory.

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Open letter to INTEL(3:07pm EST Tue Dec 11 2001)Surrender. – by AMD

It's about bleepin' time!!(3:10pm EST Tue Dec 11 2001)They should have done this a LONG time ago. Oh well, I love my AMD anyways. – by Me&AMD4ever

845 prices(3:19pm EST Tue Dec 11 2001)Microx-press.com is quoting prices for the new board starting at 138.00. I found a reference on Intel's site that this board will have 4 USB 2.0 ports too. – by Indy

Memories (9:03pm EST Tue Dec 11 2001)seems like yesterday VIA released their intel DDR system, and it “sucked” according to the inte… i mean experts… not intel reps… silly me. Here we go again – by Warplex

Indy(8:56am EST Wed Dec 12 2001)

I'm from Indianapolis, too. Have you had good luck with MicroX-Press? I've found them to be good when you buy, ok when you return, but terrible when it comes to prices. They are still selling Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz with 2MB L2 cache for > US$4,200! :) Other online sites have them for around $300 or so.

– by Rick C. Hodgin

what is the most powerful computer in the world(9:02am EST Fri Sep 30 2005)I hope I can find the answer.If I don't I will be very angry. – by shaniqua